Estimator Selection for Closed-Population Capture-Recapture

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-150

  Stanley, Thomas R ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^b  

^a Biological Resources Division   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Estimator averaging; Linear discriminant analysis; Model averaging; Model selection; Multinomial logistic regression; Population estimation

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0000555952     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400647     Document Type: Article

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